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How should I handle vector artwork and images for street pole-sized ads?Thanks for letting me know it worked! As a Mac user, I'm often frustrated by the Adobe apps, but the cross-platform consistency helps. On the Mac world, the operating system builds all the visual elements with a subset of PDF, so exporting to PDF and I are best friends... A quick note of clarification: I export to/save as PDF in InDesign and Illustrator, but save to tif (for layered files), jpg (for opaque files) or png (for transparent backgrounds) in Photoshop.

How to make a logo where a letter is made of particles of varying sizes?Not only do I earn my living with "graphic design", most things I design (most non-designers would say "make" or "print") receive big "wow!" responses, especially when compared to what the non-designers make in Word with crappy clip-art. My designs take significantly longer than their Word-made stuff because I typically modify everything I use. I might require "twice as long" to design something, and that is significant to them. They make their stuff in ten minutes, my designs take "significantly" longer.